Higher Cobbaton Farmhouse, Including Shippon Attached to West
HIGHER COBBATON FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING SHIPPON ATTACHED TO WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165572
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Cobbaton Farmhouse, Including Shippon Attached to West
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER COBBATON FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING SHIPPON ATTACHED TO WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165572
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Cobbaton Farmhouse, Including Shippon Attached to West
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER COBBATON FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING SHIPPON ATTACHED TO WEST
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER COBBATON FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING SHIPPON ATTACHED TO WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chittlehampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 61395 26872
Details
SWIMBRIDGE COBBATON SS 62 NW 11/189 Higher Cobbaton Farmhouse, 25.2.65 including shippon attached to west. GV II
Farmhouse with shippon attached at left end. Farmhouse late C16/early C17 extended to rear in C17. Shippon probably of same date but with later alterations and reroofed in C20. Painted rendered stone rubble and cob. Asbestos stack at right end and tall rendered lateral hall stack to front with offsets. Originally a true longhouse with entry to shippon from through-passage now blocked and rear through- passage doorway infilled. Hall and inner room to right of through-passage and right-angled kitchen extension of 2 storeys to rear, forming overall T-shaped plan. Farmhouse 2 storeys. Tallet floor mostly removed from shippon end. Farmhouse has 3-window range. 2-light casement. 2 panes per light above through-passage dorway with wide plank door. A 2-light casement, 4 panes per light, and horned sash 3 over 3 panes to right of stack on each floor. Hall stack projection has tall 4- paned single light window. Buttress between hall and inner room. Shippon to left has loft opening and plank door above window opening at left end and plank shutter to right hand window. 4 pigeon holes above. Interior: much of the original joinery survives. 4-centred arched doorway with chamfered surround to rear of hall. Cyma reversa door surrounds with ornately carved stops between hall/inner room and to rear of inner room to stair turret. Similar stops to ovolo moulded door surround to left at head of stairs and C17 plank door with cover strips opposite head of stairs. Ovolo moulded surround with chamfered and stopped lintel to dairy doorway at bottom of stairs. Section of probably C17 panelling survives of 12 panels to inner doorway screen to principal chamber. 2 chamfered and stopped surrounds to rear landing passage doorways. Moulded platerwork cornices to inner room and principal chamber over. Creamery to rear of hall. No access to the roofspace but height of ceilings, with no trusses showing, and survival of plasterwork cornice suggests that possibly a collar-rafter roof survives.
Listing NGR: SS6139526872
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98672
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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